Word: oscar
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Picture of Dorian Gray," by Oscar Wilde...
...author concludes, with the worst kind of Chestertonian paradox which consists in twisting a word entirely out of its accepted meaning--because he is not the most decadent of the decadents. Chesterton is a force for manliness and for righteousness; such was not the most typical of the decadents, Oscar Wilde. Of the stories, "The Treasure Voyage" by E. G. Curtis '09 and "The Difference" by E. B. Sheldon '08, it is enough to say that the first shows far more definite attempt at plot and the second more vigorous character drawing than one is accustomed to find in undergraduate...
...Oscar Gottfried Mayer...
...Recollections of Oscar Wilde," by E. La Jeunesse, A. Gide, and F. Blei...
...Plays of Oscar Wilde," volume...